nine o’clock

This clock emoji represents nine o'clock. It's a typical time that signifies the start of the workday or school for many companies and schools.

This time is familiar to people in most countries around the world as the start of work or classes. It's widely used as the time to begin the morning routine.

This time, indicating the exact hour, symbolizes the start of standardized working hours since modernization. It has become a universal starting time for work worldwide since the Industrial Age.

In modern society, the 9-to-5 work culture has become the benchmark for the start of the workday. Recently, its meaning has been gradually changing with the spread of flexible work systems and telecommuting. Millennials and Gen Z, in particular, are presenting new perspectives on this time.